Reversible waste receiver



' Dec. 3, 1929. MAKER 1,737,603

REVERSIELE WASTE RECEIVER Filed Oct. 14, 1927 Patented Dec. 3, 1929 JOHN A. MAKER, OF DULUTH, MINNESOTA REVERSIBLE WASTE RIEK'JEIVEIR.

Application filed October 14, 1927. Serial No. 226,245.

This invention relates to a waste receptacle and has special reference to one particularly adapted for use by dentists, the principal object being to provide a more convenient and economical waste receptacle than heretofore known.

, Another object is to provide one susceptible of longer use without change than similar devices now employed.

Other objects and advantages of the novel structure will appear in the further description thereof.

Referring now to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this application, and 5 wherein like reference characters indicate like parts:

Figure 1 is a plan'view of the preferred form of paper blank used in the construction of the improved receptacle;

Figure 2 is a perspective view tacle; partly assembled.

igure 3 is a perspective view of a glass container holding one of the receptacles; and Figure 4 is a similar view of a modified form of a reversible unit. I

The blank comprises the major elongated body portion including the two ends 1 and 2, the two sides 3 and .4, and the holding flap 5. Transverse one end of this-portion and integral with the end 1 is a right angular extension 6, foldable on' the lines indicated at 7 and 8 and the space intermediate of which, indicated at 9, forming when folded one of the partition walls which divide the receptacle into two equal parts-or chambers. Upon the opposite side of the portion 1 is formed the fla 10.

ontiguous with the portion 2, integral therewith and parallel with the extension 6 is a similar extension 11, also foldable upon the lines 12 and 13, the space between which, indicated at 14, forming a like central partition which when the receptacle is folded abuts the partition 9, the object of which is to reinforce said partition wall by making it double, preventing the liability of same becoming dislocated when one end of the receptacle is filledbefore the other, and further to prevent any leakage from one portion of the receptacle t0 the other. On the opposite side of the .in a like manner upon of the recep-' 'bore in which the portion 2 to the extension 11 is formed the flap'15, similar and for a like purpose as the flap 10, while intermediate of these two flaps 10- and 15 and contiguous with the portion 3 is the portion 16, foldable as at 17 forming the flap 18 and which portion 16 forms another side of the assembled receptacle. Contiguous with the portion 4 is a like side wall extension 19, foldable as at'20, forming the flap 21, similar to the flap 18 and functioning the opposite side when the receptacle is folded, resulting in a double chambered rectangularly shaped receptacle as clearly shown in Figure 2; there being cross-like slits indicated at 22 and 23 in the opposite ends thereof.

While this receptacle may be'used inde pendently' it is preferred to mount same within a more weighty object, such as a glass or akelite container illustrated at 24 and formedlwith a through rectangularly shaped paper receptacle previously described tightly fits. To facilitate the con-' venient change of the waste receiver it is obvious that the bore of the receptacle may be slightly tapered, or the paper receptacle itself made slightly smaller at one end than at the other.

By such an assemblage it is apparent that I have provided a waste receptacle occupying little if any more room than the ordinary one used, but-capable of twice the service with equal sanitation, the double functioning of the device being accomplished by its reversibilit I In Figure 4 I have illustrated a modified form of the invention, the'same comprising a holder -or block of glass or the like, common to a plurality of waste receptacles which may either be double as previously described or single as are now commonly used and if the latter placed therein oppositely that is the. receiving end of one in.the same side with the closed end of the other so that in its use a-mistake will not readily occur in placing waste material therein; but in the event of my improved double receptacle being used therein accommodation for four different batches of Waste material will beafiorded.

Having .thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patcut, is:

1. A reversible waste receiver of the class described comprising a receptacle havingv chambers thereineaeh accessible from one end 5 only of the receiver. a

2. A reversible waste receiver of the class described having a plurality of chambers therein separated bya transverse wall and an entranceway in each end ofthe receiver to its adjacent chamber.

3. A rectangular waste receiving unit of the class described having two chambers therein arranged in tandem and accessible from opposite ends of the unit.

'4. The combination with a reversible waste receiver, of a double transverse partition wall centrally thereof forming tandem chambers each accessible through its outermost end.

5. A blank for a double chambered receptacle of the character described comprising a major elong'atedbody portion embodying both ends and two sides of the receptacle, another side of the receptacle formedintegral 25 with the body portion, the other side of the V receptacle formed integral with the opposite side of the body portion, double partitions formed integral with one side of the body portion, and flaps formed integral with the blank for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

JOHN A. MAKER, 

